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2003 Project News |
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Isaac Maina of the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust has come up with a clever way to re-purpose some of the thousands of snares collected through the de-snaring work.
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Litter is a significant problem near settlements throughout much of Kenya (see photo). Isaac had the clever idea of straightening the snares, bending one end into a handle, and sharpening the other end, making a perfect poker for cleaning up litter. He's begun organizing groups of people to pick up the litter, after which they get into the KWS bus and get to go on a game drive in the Park. It's a brilliant idea. When we were in Voi showing films in October, we got to see some of his cleanup crews in action.
 Isaac demonstrates the repurposed snares |
A very clever way of putting some previously brutal pieces of metal to positive use. Poachers use anything available - all manner of cable, barbed wire, and other miscellaneous pieces of metal that can be fashioned into the snares that sometimes capture, and just as often only maim, the wildlife of Kenya. A brilliantly practical form of environmentalism.